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Berlin Art Calendar: August exhibition guide

Visiting Berlin is always a challenge for the list-making art-lover as there are always so many things you really want to see. The German capital boasts a great number of world-class museum, dozens of contemporary art galleries and an open-museum attitude that allows you to find art everywhere. Cityartnow comes to your aid by making a list of the most interesting shows at the city's museums and exhibition spaces that you can visit for the rest of the summer! Furthermore we urge you to check our Berlin city-page and form your own unique art list! Enjoy!

Pictures taken in Syria's north-eastern provinces by Syrian photographer Mohamad al-Roumi during the 1990s document the region's nomadic population and the working conditions in its poverty-stricken towns. Until October 25, 2016.

The exhibition presents a selection of contemporary Polish art from artists who were nominated for the VIEWS Award from 2003 to the present. Part of the exhibition is shown at the Polish Institute Berlin. Until October 30, 2016.

Frank Stella, a living legend of minimalism & abstraction, presents an exhibition with works from his Polish Village (1970) and Bali (2002-2009) series while Alexandre Singh presents his installation The School for Objects Criticized AE - an earlier version of which was exhibited at the New Museum, N.Y. and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Both exhibitions are open until September 3, 2016.

Frank Stella, Installation view, Sprüth Magers Berlin, 2016

5. Berlinische Galerie - Dada Africa. Dialogue with the foreign

Celebrating the centennial of DADA, the Gallery presents an exhibition about responses to Dada outside Europe, revealing how much the Dadaists looked to art beyond Europe, being in direct dialogue with artefacts from Africa, Asia and Oceania. Opening August 5. Until November 7, 2016.

Presenting one of the busiest exhibitions programs in the city, Martin-Gropius-Bauhosts spectacular exhibitions on the art of the Maya, the complete interdisciplinary oeuvre of William Kentridge, photography shows by Thomas Struth and Berenice Abbott and an exhibition examining art in the GDR, 1976-1989.

Six interesting exhibition are currently on view at Hamburger Bahnhof. Neue Galerie: The Black Years with masterpieces by Picasso, Feininger, Otto Dix, Kollwitz, Belling, de Chirico and Kirchner is a gem! Other exhibitions by Carl Andre, Julian Rosefeldt and Gülsün Karamustafa are also on view.

A unique summer exhibition showing the most beautiful, seductive and curious travel pictures from over five centuries; from gorgeously illustrated books from the Age of Discovery via the enigmatic paradises of Paul Gauguin and Nolde's deeply sceptical South Sea watercolours. Until September 25, 2016.

In Egypt, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam share a very long common history. 'ONE GOD - Abraham's Legacy on the Nile' takes a closer look at the religious life and day-to-day coexistence of the three faith communities in Egypt, from the time of the Romans all the way up to the Fatimid caliphate in the 12th century. Until December 31, 2016.